Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there? ~ Richard Bach

You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, and how, how rare and strange it is, to find in a life composed so much of odds and ends... to find a friend who has these qualities, who has, and gives those qualities upon which friendship lives. ~ T. S. Eliot

I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. ~ Edith Wharton

You can always tell a real friend: When you make a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. ~ Laurence Peter, Chicago Sun Times

A faithful friend is beyond price,/And his value cannot be weighted./A faithful friend is a life-giving medicine. ~ The Apocrypha

Though friendship is not quick to burn, it is explosive stuff. ~ May Sarton